At breakfast Kaleea told me that she thinks that romantic relationships are very "binding." Honestly I don't think like that. If you are in a trusting enough relationship, there can be very little expectations or responsibilities to tie you down.
They had early morning worship, which was very intimate due to less than 300 people there. The band for the week was For All Seasons, and the singer with her acoustic guitar made early morning worship awesome.
We had breakout groups after chapel. All the guys talked about the sermon and other things as well, like how the guys are actually seeing God work.
At Rec chapel we learn that our team is in 4th place, which is saying something since we never really do win it all. The game for the day was Kajabe Can Can. The way it is played is 16 players make a circle holding ropes in each hand. In the middle is a plastic trash can. If someone touches the can, they get eliminated until there is a lone winner. One of the most intense camp games ever due to the amount of strength and coordination required.
At lunch, I ate an orange like I usually do: messy. I don't eat by the divisions but just by biting into the whole thing.
After lunch I went to an optional seminar on spiritual discipline. One of the biggest things I got out of it was how you can simply incorporate The Lord's Prayer into it.
It was told much prior to camp that there would be a new event called soggy bottom boat race. Each church had to make a boat out of only duct tape, cardboard, and plastic liner. We made the duct tape flag on Tuesday.
Mario, Brian, and I played Frisbee outside of the cabin, but quickly realized that continually hitting the trees was ruining the Frisbee. It was still fun nonetheless.
On the Hume 'n Beans deck (Hume 'n Beans is the coffee place with a very nice play-on-words) I taught some of the guys the card game Napoleon. It is very complex for people who have never played a trick game before so it took a while before they got it. After they did though, they were so eager to play.
At dinner I saw one of the tables throwing around an apple and trying to catch in on their forks. Then with the forks in them, they kept tossing it around!
After dinner was The Gauntlet, where each team has one counselor run across a series of islands floating on the lake trying to get the "gladiator" off of the last island while being chased by the "motivator." And if that's not intense enough, you can't be in the water for more than 10 seconds. Although awesome, I didn't really watch that but instead was talking to Angie and Rachel. I've learned that trying to caress a rock, certain words that sound dirty but aren't, acting like a total wingnut, and awkwardly making physical contact makes them laugh. Who knew.
Night chapel was about how in the covenant between God and us, the scale is absurdly stacked. We have to do so little just for all of the amazing promises from God. In response to his actions, all we have to do is pray and worship.
Standing by the fire after chapel was nice. There was these two girls that I happened to overhear their conversation. One girl wanted to run up to her cabin to get a jacket, but was too cold to leave the bonfire. Once again like a gentleman, I offered her to use my jacket and bring it back whenever; I wasn't going anywhere.
Once cabin time started at around 10:30, Wedo organized it so that the guys could go and look at the stars, something no other cabin really got the chance to do. Staring at the stars really makes you revel in the fact that we are just a tiny speck in a vast universe and God still holds us higher than all of the rest.
Every night we had verses to memorize for our team to score points. Although easy for most of us, Abdul really struggled. We figured out a system how he used body motions to better remember the verse.
